This publication surveys the work of Italian critic, architect, and
visual artist Gianni Pettena. Focusing on a rich ten-year period of
production that began in the mid-sixties, it brings new attention to the
artistic and intellectual practice of a figure known primarily as one of
the main exponents of the Radical Architecture movement. International
curators and writers consider a span of projects about landscape and the
built form as well as objects and works documenting Pettena's interests
in labor, temporality, action, and the event. Published on the occasion
of the exhibition "About Non-Conscious Architecture" at Galleria
Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, 2017, the book also contains a republished
conversation between Pettena and artist Robert Smithson and an
illustrated index detailing the trajectory of Pettena's body of work and
research.
Copublished with Galleria Giovanni Bonelli
**Contributors
**Pierre Bal-Blanc, Adam Budak, Luca Cerizza, Émile Ouroumov, Marco
Scotini, Elisabetta Trincherini